Part of the What Do I Do Now? series, Stroke uses a case-based approach to cover common and important topics in the diagnosis and treatment of stroke. Each chapter provides an overview of the approach to the problem in question followed by a discussion of the diagnosis, key points to remember, and selected references for further reading. For this edition, all cases have been carefully revised, and new information and references have been added. Stroke is anengaging collection of thought-provoking cases which clinicians can utilize when they encounter difficult patients on the ward or in the clinic. The volume is also a self-assessment tool that tests the readers ability to answer the question, What do I do now?
1. Confused After a Nap; 2. Headache After a Beach Trip; 3. Why Are You Staring Over There?; 4. Dizziness and Ataxia After Lifting a Vacuum; 5. Two Generations with Strokes and Cognitive Decline; 6. Ms. H Heads to the Hospital; 7. The Weak Construction Worker; 8. Twisted Tongue and Dizzy Head; 9. Right hemibody weakness in a man having lightning-like transient pain of his face over the prior year; 10. Blurry Vision; 11. Gastroenteritis with Dizziness and Ataxia; 12. Neck Pain Followed Soon by Right Hemiparesis; 13. Sudden Onset of Double Vision and Left Ataxic Hemiparesis; 14. Arm Pain and Swelling Followed by Headache, Right Weakness and Aphasia; 15. More Than Meets the Eye; 16. A Rusty Pipe; 17. Eyelid Droopiness and Body Weakness; 18. A Pain in the Hand; 19. A Ticking Time Bomb; 20.Dancing Hand; 21. Double Vision and Jumpy Eyes; 22. Between a Rock and a Hard Place; 23. Follow Your Heart or Your Brain?; 24. A Bloody Mesh; 25. A Lernaean Hydra; 26. It looks like a stroke, walks like a stroke, behaves like a stroke. Is it a stroke?; 27. A Relentless Headache;